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title: The three brothers went past without taking any notice of them, with… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The three brothers went past without taking any notice of them, without even glancing at the young girls on the hillock. Who acts: three brothers. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 84

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The three brothers went past without taking any notice of them, without even glancing at the young girls on the hillock.

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**Who acts:** three brothers · **What happens:** go past, take, glance, notice · **To what, where:** notice, brothers

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:13:84
# text = The three brothers went past without taking any notice of them, without even glancing at the young girls on the hillock.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	past	past	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hillock	hillock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go past** | past | the three brothers |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | the three brothers *not said here* | any notice of brothers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 3 | **glance** | gerund | the three brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the young girls on the hillock | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme |
| 4 | **notice** |  |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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